Murray Bookchin

Bookchin, Murray

Ed — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:14:05 +0000

Bookchin remembered

Saii — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:26:52 +0000

Murray Bookchin died at home on the 30th of July at the age of 85, surrounded by his family. From the 1960s onwards, Bookchin was, rightly, considered one of the world’s leading anarchist thinkers. His death, while not unexpected, is still a sad day for our movement.

Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement

libcom — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:31:31 +0000

by Murray Bookchin

The environmental movement has traveled a long way since those early Earth Day festivals when millions of school kids were ritualistically mobilized to clean up streets, while Arthur Godfrey, Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich, and a bouquet of manipulative legislators scolded their parents for littering the landscape with cans, newspapers, and bottles.

Listen, Marxist!

libcom — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:41:37 +0000

Murray Bookchin's best-known leaflet, Listen, Marxist! was aimed predominantly at students influenced by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party which was heavily (and highly destructive) active in the mass Students for a Democratic Society movement in 1960s and 70s America. His criticisms of "Marxism" and Marxist terminology are not applicable to Marxism as a whole, but some do apply to the crude politics of the PLP. Despite this significant shortcoming, we reproduce the document here due to its importance in terms of the left and libertarian left in the US

Municipalization: Community Ownership of the Economy

libcom — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 21:20:36 +0000

Murray Bookchin's Libertarian Municipalism is an attempt to bring up to date the historical legacy of those directly democratic organs of self-management that were thrown up in times of struggle by the working class. It suggests the potential of moving towards a non-market economy with no separation between economic and political democracy.

libcom.org 2005

Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism - An Unbridgeable Chasm

libcom — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:17:48 +0000

Written in the mid-'90s, his emphasis on collective action to achieve meaningful change over the isolation and ineffectiveness of lifestyle politics should be considered by all those tempted to see anarchism as a subculture to join rather than a practice that informs their interaction within (rather than outside of) society. libcom.org 2005